Nerdbloke

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2009/12/-the-usb-flash-drive.ars

As much as I loath Paypal it seems they are providing some good service in the small business eCommerce sector.

ArsTechnica has a write up in November ‘09 about how to start using Paypal as a free eCommerce vendor.

Every kid loves paper planes right? The other day my little girl was watching the “big kids” at her after school care compete in a paper plane competition.

Today I found the paper plane that absolutely rocks.

Well named – the “Sky King” flies straight and true. I gently tossed it from my desk out my study door and it flew 20 feet and only lost about 1 or 2 feet in height when it slammed into a wall. Sturdy construction, slightly nose heavy and good lift let it repeat the process.

Instructions here: http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Fold_Your_Own_Sky_King_Paper_Airplane

Nice story about a guy tracking his stolen iPhone. This line cracked me up: “We laughed triumphantly, adrenaline racing, feeling like the Jack Bauer trio. (Disregard the fact that we’d just left a Lego convention.)”

I have a super cheap laptop that serves the family as DVD player and web browser. The only drama I have is that the standard windows power management has been overrun by Acer’s version – known as ePower Management. Unfortunately, ePower Management does not function properly if you are not logged in as an Administrator. All the accounts on the laptop are standard users for security purposes.

This blogger has some good notes on how to fix this problem here and here – run the Acer power mgmt software as a service